E2Pack acquired a brench of EMS Group to enlarge Bottero's presence in the cold end portion of the hollow glass industry, as well as in the field of packaging for general food and beverage industry. I have been fully involved in the M&A process and I am now managing the consolidation of E2Pack inside Bottero Group.

I am responsible for the activities of the BU Hollow Glass, which is engineering, selling, installing and servicing glass forming machines for the glass industry.Manufacturing and Procurement are Corporate organizations, cross BU. The BU has a dedicated P/L, 90 dedicated persons, and a turnover of about 110 millions eur.It can also manage turn key installations including the cold and hot ends of the hollow glass forming process.My position reports to the CEO of the group and I am part of the Corporate Management Steering Committee.

I took the responsibility of the entire Metalcutting business (product development, order acquisition and execution, customer care).The Business Unit Powertrain Machining had its own profit and loss (200 Meur turnover) and counted 470 persons in 4 plants (France, Italy, China and USA).Core business is engineering, manufacturing and commissioning machining systems for the automotive market and general industry as well.My position was reporting to the CEO of the Comau Group and I was member of the management steering committee of the group.

Full responsibility of the company Comau France, part of the Comau Group, over the two plants of Castres and Trappes. About 400 people in total.The position was reporting to the BU Powertrain COO.

In addition to my functional role (see below) I also took the lead of the Region Europe for the business unit Powertrain, in a typical matrix organization.The Region BU Director supports the achievement of the BU Trading Profit at Regional and Global level, with the following responsibilities:Support the proposal, estimating and sales activities.Directly lead the activities of Engineering, Project Management, Procurement and Manufacturing for the local projects or local portions of multicountry projects.Manage and develop technical and managerial competences at local level.The Region Europe consists of about 300 people in 2 Countries (Italy and France).

I lead all the activities related to the Order Acquisition for Metalcutting Systems in the Powertrain field: Proposal, Estimating, Research & Development, Product Marketing and Product Management over 4 plants (Italy, France, China and USA), 50 people in total.I lead the communization of the Proposal and Estimating tools within the 3 plants, as well as the databases of costs.I have to establish policies and procedures for the definition of the offers.I have to define and manage a R&D plan and budget according to the demands of the Market and the Company’s business plans.I lead the activity of benchmark study and competitor analysis.I have to establish a consolidated global sourcing plan for the standard machining centers, taking into account the quality and cost targets.Interface with the Global Sales Account of the BU to set up the sales strategies according to the customers’ (major automakers ww) needs and requirements.I report to the COO of the Business Unit Powertrain.

Within the Italian plant of Comau Powertrain, I was responsible of all the activities related to the technical development of the offers and the cost estimation for Metalcutting and Assembly Systems for producing engines or transmissions, in the italian plant.I managed a group of 15 persons in 5 working teams.I’ve been leading the team that developed the Comau Powertrain approach to the korean market, ending up with a well established relationship with the Hyundai-Kia Group and the acquisition of the first korean projects for Comau.

In the field of the Production Systems for engines and transmissions manufacturers, I was responsible for the Mechanical Engineering activities of specific projects, metalcutting lines and assembly lines.I worked with international customers, (General Motors, Fiat, Mercedes).I managed engineered teams consisting of around 20 persons (company employees and contractors), with the target of developing the engineering with a given budget and overall planning.I was also responsible of integrating sub-supplied equipment for the supply of turn key systems.

As first job I started as Proposal Engineer in the field of the food transformation plants.